Subj : Re: Hackintosh
To   : Nightfox
From : Spectre
Date : Fri Apr 22 2022 10:43:00

 Ni> I always thought that was an interesting attitude.  Apple seems to be more

Sculley had some odd thoughts about trying to make a system for each niche,
until they had the market confused with to many offerings that didn't have
sufficient turnover of any particular model.

Jobs cut it all back and streamlined it, went more the Henry Ford model, you
can have whatever you want so long as its this one, I think is best for you.

 Ni> bringing income from their software.  Microsoft became successful making
 Ni> money from their software licensing, including their operating systems.

Thats because of their target market though.  When IBM created the PC and XT
they basically just gave it away, anyone could make copies of it. There's not
much value trying to compete in a budget hardware space. They have dabbled in
hardware, SoftCard was an example of that, a Z80 CP/M card for the Apple II.

There also wasn't a lot of point trying to out manouver Apple on their own
operating system either.

Spec


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